Excerpt from Your Home and Family Home economics as a school study is still in its youth. Those concerned with teaching the subject find them selves constantly readjusting their thinking both in accordance with the progress in educational philosophy and with the rapid changes in home and family life. In earlier days homes changed little from one genera tion to the next. Mothers, in preparing their daughters to conduct homes of their own, felt no uncertainty in handing down the standards, traditions, and skills of their own generation. Some homes to-day in the rural areas are still very like those early homes except that such activities as spinning, weaving, and candle-making are not practiced. On the other hand, however, one finds to-day city homes of the most sophisticated types small, compact apartments equipped with all modern electrical conveniences, arranged for a minimum of cooking, laundering, and entertaining, no provision whatever being made for infants and small children. Between these two extremes are many variations adapted to a wide range of tastes and economic levels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.